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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Reality is not optional.
Reading is not optional.
Optional is latin for 'Be There'.
Bleeding isn't optional for most of us.
For scientists, reality is not optional.
Survival is optional. No one has to change.
Struggling is mandatory. Suffering is optional.
Change is a given; growth, however, is optional.
God is not an optional extra, He's an absolute must!
Forgiveness is mandatory; reconciliation is optional.
We need to tell kids flat out: reading is not optional.
Growing older is mandatory, but growing up is optional.
Prayer is not optional for the Christian; it is required.
Even when winnin's illogical, losin's still far from optional
Respect for the rule of law is not optional; it's fundamental.
Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.
Facing difficulties is inevitable. Learning from them is optional.
The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.
Complying with requests from Congress is not optional. It is mandatory.
Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.
Everything is optional. Somethings are illegal. And some things are really gross.
Suffering is optional. You’re gonna have some pain but it doesn’t have to make you suffer.
Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them.
Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.
As your newly crowned queen of Earth, it is my first royal decree that flats are sexy and nails are optional.
Work is not optional for those able to do work, and that's most of us. There are to be no shirkers in the Lord's kingdom.
If I've learned one thing from my mother, my teachers, my greatest female inspirations, it's that Boundaries Are Optional.
I hate how spiritual formation gets positioned as an optional pursuit for a small special interest group within the church.
Pain is mandatory for all of us. It's what teaches us. Suffering is what's optional. That's what happens when we try to skip over the pain.
In a way, publishing in 2005 was similar to publishing in 1950. Nobody kept blogs; that was still optional. I didn't even have a website then.
Marriage has been in a constant state of evolution since the dawn of the Stone Age. In the process, it has become more flexible - but also more optional.
My favorite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.
I spend five times more money at a chemist shop than I would at a fashion boutique. Clothes shopping is optional for me; shopping at a chemist store is a must.
You get involved with a studio, and optional pictures and sequel options and that sort of thing are becoming part and parcel with the roles they're handing out.
The whole New Deal was in a sense just a series of public options, some more optional than others, that offered government as an alternative to the often-flawed private market.
If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
Nonfiction writers are the packhorses of literature. We're meant to carry the story. If we can make it up and down the mountain by a reliable if not scenic route, we have delivered. Technique is optional.
The implementation measures of both Covenants, but especially those of the Covenant concerning civil and political rights, were considerably weakened to the point where they assumed an optional character.
Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but it's pretty much the whole game today.
Batters are made by combining some sort of flour - usually wheat flour, though cornstarch and rice flour are not uncommon - with a liquid and optional leavening or binding ingredients, like eggs and baking powder.
I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?
The blues is deceptively simple. Verse and chorus. Sometimes not even a chorus. Four bars that repeat, no Auto-Tune, electricity optional. It is the most direct, bare-bones of content. There is no interference between the head and heart.
We need to have making, including computer science, shop, etc. as part of the core curriculum from the beginning, not just an optional afterschool thing. Things like First Robotics and all of those great programs need to become mainstream.
Artists forget than the first purpose of a comic character is to convey emotion. Everything else, like realism, or other kinds of virtuosity, is an optional extra. If you sacrifice expression for the sake of other concerns, you're putting the cart before the horse.
People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction.
Socialisation is not optional. It's an inescapable contract, and our birth into the world is our signature of agreement. Norms and ideologies vary from society to society, and most of them weren't formed during our lifetimes but were handed down from one generation to the next.
As everyone knows, tips constitute the bulk of a waiter's or waitress's income. But they are also optional, at least in theory. Does it really seem like a good idea to make someone's salary so susceptible to customers' whims on a given day - or whether any customers happen to show up at all?
Our education system is increasingly embracing a black-and-white way of thinking, in which 'learning' and 'play' are diametrically opposed. 'Learning' is the serious stuff that happens inside a classroom and can be measured via multiple choice questions and a No. 2 pencil. 'Play' is frivolous, fun, and worst of all, optional.
The rule of law means that law and justice are upheld by an independent judiciary. The judgments of the European Court of Justice have to be respected by all. To undermine them, or to undermine the independence of national courts, is to strip citizens of their fundamental rights. The rule of law is not optional in the European Union. It is a must.
